PC Virii cost $55 billion loss

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Aron Schatz
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January 16, 2004
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Virus writers must be living it up right now. $55 Billion in losses. That's not a number to sneeze at.

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Last year, there was almost one major virus attack every month, including the well-known Slammer worm, which shut down Internet service providers in South Korea, disrupted plane schedules and knocked out automatic teller machines in January. The Lovegate Internet e-mail worm surfaced in February, while the Bugbear and Sobig viruses, which spread via infected e-mail, appeared in June.

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